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I think he believes in dianetics.

In 1950, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) published Dianetics: The
Modern Science of Mental Health (The American Saint Hill Organization, Los
Angeles. All page references here are to this edition.) The book is treated
as if it were a holy scripture by Scientologists and they treat it as if it
were the cornerstone of their church, their religion, and what they consider
to be their science. Hubbard tells the reader that dianetics "...contains a
therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills
and all organic psycho-somatic ills, with assurance of complete cure...." He
claims that he has discovered the "single source of mental derangement"
(Hubbard 6). However, in a disclaimer on the frontispiece of the book, we
are told that "Scientology and its sub-study, Dianetics, as practiced by the
Church...does not wish to accept individuals who desire treatment of
physical illness or insanity but refers these to qualified specialists of
other organizations who deal in these matters." The disclaimer seems clearly
to have been a protective mechanism against lawsuits for practicing medicine
without a license; the author repeatedly insists that dianetics can cure
just about anything that ails you. He also repeatedly insists that dianetics
is a science. Yet, just about anyone familiar with scientific texts will be
able to tell from the first few pages of Dianetics that the text is no
scientific work and the author no scientist. Dianetics is a classic example
of a pseudoscience.

On page 5 of Dianetics, Hubbard asserts that a science of mind must find "a
single source of all insanities, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions,
repressions and social derangements." Such a science, he claims, must
provide "Invariant scientific evidence as to the basic nature and functional
background of the human mind." And, this science, he says, must understand
the "cause and cure of all psycho-somatic ills...." Yet, he also claims that
it would be unreasonable to expect a science of mind to be able to find a
single source of all insanities, since some are caused by "malformed,
deleted or pathologically injured brains or nervous systems" and some are
caused by doctors. Undaunted by this apparent contradiction, he goes on to
say that this science of mind "would have to rank, in experimental
precision, with physics and chemistry." He then tells us that dianetics is
"...an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of
natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences" (Hubbard, 6).

http://skepdic.com/dianetic.html

    I dunno.  I went to an Orthodox talmud torah as a kid.  I remember
nothing about thetans.
    Please don't make me read up on Scientology.  I wish to remain
blissfully ignorant in my chemically imbalanced way.

Steve

But how would Tom explain the schizophrenia-like psychosis seen in
Klinefelter syndrome?

PF